Take Extinction Off Your PlateAn Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

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The Center's new Earth-friendly Diet campaign provides
facts about the effects of meat production on the planet, as well as helpful
resources to help you take extinction off your plate. Every meat-free meal
makes a difference, and we need you on board. Please take the pledge today,
then share it on Facebook with your friends.

From habitat destruction and massive greenhouse gas emissions to wasted
water and fouled skies, our nation's voracious appetite for meat is causing
great harm to our planet and its wildlife.

We asked you earlier this year about your eating habits and what you
thought about the effect of meat production and consumption on wildlife and
the environment. Overwhelmingly you told us that groups like the Center for
Biological Diversity should be doing more to address the harms of meat
production and help change the American diet. We listened, and today we're
launching the Earth-friendly Diet campaign.

Cutting just one-third of the meat from your diet can save as much as
340,667 gallons of water, more than 4,000 square feet of land and the
greenhouse gas equivalent of driving 2,700 fewer miles a year. By pledging
to reduce your meat consumption by one-third or more, you'll have a huge
impact on the environment and the hundreds of species threatened by
livestock and Big Agriculture.

The Center's new Earth-friendly Diet campaign provides facts about the
effects of meat production on the planet, as well as helpful resources to
help you take extinction off your plate. Every meat-free meal makes a
difference, and we need you on board. Please take the pledge today, then
share it on Facebook with your friends.

Already a vegetarian? We need your help, too. You're like many of our
supporters who indicated on the survey that they don't eat meat or have
already started to cut back. That makes you a valuable wildlife advocate who
can help others join the movement. Spread the word by taking the pledge
today and telling your friends to sign, too. For the planet, for wildlife
and for us.

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